The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-29
BOTH YACHTS SAFE IN HARBOR.
THE CORONET ARRIVED SUNDAY,
THE DAUNTLESS YESTERDAY.
Nearly Thirty Hours Difference in
Their Arrival at Queenstown.
Terrible Gales Experienced Laying To in Storm
Neither Vessel Damaged a Few Sails Torn.

QUEENSTOWN. March 2S.-The Coro-
net was the first of the racing Ameri-
can yachts to arrive. She arrived here
yesterday at l2:41 p. IN. The Dauntless
crossed the finishing line at $40 o'clock
p. m. to-day. The Coronets. apparent
time from the start at New York was
IA days, 23 hours, "a minutes 46 seconds,
and the actual time, computed ON the
Greenwich basis. II days. 10 hours. 3
minutes, IA seconds. The longest days
run was 291.J miles. made Saturday.
March 26th. and the shortest, 3S.s miles,
made Tuesday, March 22d. The actual
time of the Dauntless was rs days. !
hour. 43 minutes. l3 seconds.
The whole number of nautical miles
sailed by the Coronetwas $40. The
weather was uncommonly tempestuous
even for this season of the year. No less
than seven heavy gales contrived To keep
the sea in ferment for eleven days of
the trip and for two days the weather
was so severe as to make the question of
the yachts living through them some
what doubtful. She behaved splendidly,
however. in all sorts of weather and
proved herself one of the staunohest If
not one of the fastest vessels of her type
atioat. No accidents happened to any of
the sailors despite the great risks they
were compelled to undertake at times.
With the exception of three torn sails
and a little broken tackle everything ON
board the boat was in as good shape
when the anchor was dropped
of Queenstown as when it was
raised off Tomkinsville, Staten Island.
Ii is thought that Il much quicker pass
age might have been made had Captain
Crosby carried more sail ON several oc-
casions when the wind was light but the
sky threatening. He was very cautious
and his Judgment was controlled largely
by the barometer. which was much of
the time below 90 and seldom above 80.
the normal hight in the latitude
traversed. The course made was a little
more northerly than was thought safe,
but fortunately no icebergs field ice
were encountered.
The number of persons ON board the
COronet We're twenty nine, including
sixteen sailors, five officers. a steward,
cook, messboy and five guests. The
officers We're Captain G.. p, Cros-
by; Navigator T. h. G.. Anderson.
Mates w. A. Whittier and Otto Peter
son; Boatswain Augustus Bergholm.
THE DAUNTLEss TRIP.
All ON board the Dauntless are WELL
and the yacht is in as good shape as when
she left Owls Head, nothing having been
carried away. a comparison of the logs
of the two racers indicates that they
followed about the same course. Cald-
well Colt. owner of the Dauntless SAYS
that he encountered more wind than he
bargained for. For sixteen hours his boat
was obliged to lay to. Once she scudded
before the gale under hare poles. When
last seen from the deck of the Coronet ON
the evening of the start. the Dauntless
wilS steering south southeast, but during
the night the course was changed to
northeast by east. On March 16 she ran
into heavy cross sea, with strong
southeast gale. Oil was used with good
effect to break the waves, and the Yacht
weathered her first storm well. The
next day the sea was even more turbu-
lent, and the waves broke over the deck
in rapid succession, wrenching the yacht
SCI much that she began to leak slightly
The temperatures of both air and
water on the afternoon of the 18TH in.li-
Gated that ice was i'm close proximity
and it became necessary to use great
precaution in running. At midnight the
thermometer registered ~ and the water
3. An hour later the temperature of
the air was 40 and of the water 2s At
6o'clock ON the night of the 18th, when
heavy gale was blowing from the
southwest, a smooth stretch of water
was run into. Its temperature Indicated
that there We're icebergs near. There
was "a quantity of field-ice to leewar,l
and very near. On the Goth. 2lst and
s2d there We're strong gales. Ii was ON
the last of those DAYS that the DalIntless
hove tn.
Since last Thursday the weather was
fine. On the 25th n run of 3as miles was
made, which is said to be- the best time
ever made by yacht on the Atlantic
Ocean. Fastnet light was sighted at 40
O'Clock in the morning. but the wind had
died out and the run along the coast was
slow. The following extract from the
log of the DauntlcsS shows the distance.
made each tlay